Fr: carex étoilé, carex échiné
Provincial Status: LN
Range: Boreal NA: subsp. echinata (species: circumpolar); thr. Nfld., N to nLab.
[=Carex angustior Mack.]
[=Carex angustior Mack. var. gracilenta R.T.Clausen & Wahl]
[=Carex cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) E.P.Bicknell]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. angustata (J.Carey) L.H.Bailey]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. cephalantha L.H.Bailey]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. echinata]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. excelsior Fernald]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. microstachys Boeck.]
[=Carex echinata Murray var. ormantha Fernald]
[=Carex josselynii (Fernald) Mack. ex Pease]
[=Carex laricina Mack. ex Bright]
[=Carex leersii Willd.]
[=Carex leersii Willd. var. angustata (J.Carey) Mack.]
[=Carex leersii Willd. var. cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) J.K.Henry]
[=Carex muricata auct. non L.]
[=Carex muricata L. subsp. cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) R.T.Clausen]
[=Carex muricata L. var. angustata (J.Carey) J.Carey ex Gleason]
[=Carex muricata L. var. cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) Wiegand & Eames]
[=Carex muricata L. var. laricina (Mack. ex Bright) Gleason]
[=Carex ormantha (Fernald) Mack.]
[=Carex phyllomanica W.Boott var. angustata (J.Carey) B.Boivin]
[=Carex scirpoides Schkuhr ex Willd. var. josselynii (Fernald) Fernald]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden.]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden. forma excelsior (L.H.Bailey) Kük.]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden. var. angustata J.Carey]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden. var. cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) Fernald]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden. var. excelsior (L.H.Bailey) Fernald]
[=Carex stellulata Gooden. var. ormantha (Fernald) Fernald, p.p.]
[=Carex sterilis Willd. var. cephalantha (L.H.Bailey) Fernald]
[=Carex sterilis Willd. var. excelsior L.H.Bailey]
[=Caricina stellulata (Gooden.) St.-Lag.]
[NL reports of Carex muricata were referred to Carex echinata (A. Reznicek, pers. comm. 1997.). Note that in nEurope, Carex angustior is recognized as a distinct taxon based on both morphology and ecology (T. Ahti, pers. comm., Apr. 2015).]